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From: aceverj@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Jaap Verhage)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: What is simtel20?
Message-ID: <666@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
Date: 8 Sep 90 18:43:03 GMT
References: <3818@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: aceverj@accucx.UUCP (Jaap Verhage)
Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands
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In article <3818@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> lord@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dave Lord) writes:
>When people ask questions about whether software is available
>to do some thing or other I have often seen the response that
>such a thing is available from simtel20. Can someone tell me
>what that is and how to access it?
>
>I DO NOT have anonymous ftp capability. I have e-mail and I have
>a modem hooked to a PC but very little bulletin board experience.
Sorry, this is not going to help you much, but might help
others with the question: what is Simtel20? It is a server
maintained by the US Army at White Sands Missile Range
(California?). It's ftp-address is wsmr-simtel20.army.mil and
in numeric form 26.2.0.74. It's got a HUGE amount of public
domain and shareware programs for PC's and other systems.
Simtel is often hard to reach; a server at Washington
University maintains a copy of all the PC-software on Simtel.
That server's address is wuarchive.wustl.edu; the relevant
directory is mirrors/msdos/ after which the relevant directory
and filename you want, follow.
If you don't have ftp-capabilities, Simtel's software can be
reached by so-called TRICKLE servers, at least in Europe.
There are other possibilities to do this. I guess by now
you've been overwhelmed with responses on the how-to, so I'll
not go into it here. 

Regards, Jaap.

Jaap Verhage, Academic Computer Centre, State University at Utrecht, Holland.
aceverj@cc.ruu.nl     +<-*|*->+     I claim *every*thing and speak for myself